The biggest debt is always the government debt; it's always debt that government has run up on your behalf.

I think the main thing is: Just do it. Plunge in! Being Canadian, I go swimming in icy cold lakes, and there is always that dithering moment. "Am I really going to do this? Won't it hurt?" And at some point you just have to flop in there and scream. Once you're in, keep going. You may have to crumple and toss, but we all do that. Courage! I think that is what's most required.

If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.

It's clear, it's fresh, like a mint candy.

It isn't running away they're afraid of. We wouldn't get far. It's those other escapes, the ones you can open in yourself, given a cutting edge.

we lived in the gaps between the stories

I could end this with a moral, as if this were a fable about animals, though no fables are really about animals.